Ernestine Morrison Performs 'The Average Black Girl' on Arsenio Hall Show

okay so last night I had a woman named Ernestine Johnson booked on the show to perform spoken word unfortunately I I ran out of time and I was unable to put her on but after the show she set this room on fire with a performance for my Areno up close app and at that moment at that very moment I

decided to have her on the show so tonight to start it off for you all ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Ernestine

Johnson they say I'm not the average black girl because I'm so well spoken poised full of etiquette a white man's token you know I remember my ex's mother telling me I didn't know how I was going to react when he brought home a black girl but I like you because you talk so

white well when did me talking right equate to me talking white they say I'm not the average black girl no no no not the average black girl because the pigment in my skin is just a shade lighter than that black girl over there you know the black girl over there the black girl with the nappy hair the black

girls whose elbows can't skip a day without lotion whose hearts and heads are filled up with self-hate and bottled up emotion the Coco brown girls who have to face Society every day and be tough cuz no matter how good they straighten their hair they're good is still not good enough oh see luckily for me see I

don't fall in that category see they say I'm not the average black girl because I speak with so much class and I don't have too much but just enough ass and not too much but just enough pizaz you know just just a little bit of attitude cuz you don't want to come off as one of